Chapter 55 Confrontation at the Night Banquet
I was surprised and hurriedly walked forward. Pei Yuanhao had already raised his head, his cold eyes were like swords. I subconsciously turned my head to avoid it, but I saw Pei Yuanxiu looking at me with wide eyes, as if I was a little surprised.
I walked to the center of the banquet and knelt down and said, "Long live my servant to see the emperor, and to see the queen for thousands of years."
"Who are you, what are you doing?"
"Slave--"
I was about to speak when Yao Yingxue stood up and said, "Greeting on the queen, she is my maid. Because her hand was a little injured, I let her rest and not use it. But just now, I felt a little cold, so I asked someone to go to the heating stove and she brought it to me."
"Oh, that's it." The Queen nodded.
I lowered my head and knelt in the middle of the night banquet. The surroundings became quiet. I don’t know how many pairs of eyes were looking at me at this moment, which made me feel so excited. I just wanted to leave here quickly. I was about to bring the stove to Yao Yingxue, but I saw Queen Yin get up and walk towards me.
She reached out to lift my chin, looked at it carefully for a while, and suddenly smiled, saying, "If you want to say that the third prince is the best at picking people in this palace, Yingxue is a great beauty. Unexpectedly, even the maids around her are so beautiful."
As she said that, she turned to look at the princes sitting on both sides: "You guys should learn it too."
"The mother praised her."
As soon as Pei Yuanhao opened his mouth, it seemed like a gust of cold wind blew, and the originally lively atmosphere of the night banquet was a little cold.
At this time, a man said, "There are so many beautiful women around my third brother. My father and mother, you are too underestimating my third brother's ability."
The person who said this was the fourth prince Pei Yuanchen, who was sitting at the hands of the prince. He was next to him, the sixth princess Pei Yuanzhen, who was the same compatriot. Because their mother Zhao Shuyuan was the dowry of Empress Yin, she served the emperor during the empress's pregnancy and was able to be enthroned. Therefore, their mother and son obeyed the Queen Yin and the Prince and were particularly attached to each other.
Pei Yuanhao raised his eyes coldly: "Second, what do you mean?"
"It's not interesting, third brother, I'm praising you."
"Praise me?" He sneered, "The third brother wants to praise you. He Qingzhou was raided and his son should have been granted three thousand miles of labor service. Why did he get caught in your mansion and become a servant?"
Pei Yuanchen's face suddenly changed: "You--"
The people around were also shocked, including me, who was kneeling in the center. The fourth prince Pei Yuanchen's habit of breaking his sleeves had long been heard in the palace. Unexpectedly, it was true. Even the emperor who had been drinking had been frowning and said, "Fourth brother, you are too disrespectful. You dare to shelter the son of the criminal!"
Pei Yuanchen hurriedly stood up and said, "Father, my son, don't dare!"
"Don't dare? Then what do you think about He Qingzhou's son!"
Pei Yuanchen's face turned red and white, and he was just unable to answer. At this time, Prince Pei Yuanxiu stood up and smiled and said, "Father, don't be angry, there is a reason for the fourth brother to do this."
“What’s the reason?”
"The father also knew that the gentry in the south had always been fighting against the imperial court and did everything he could do. He Qingzhou used poems to implicitly mocking the crimes that were unforgivable. Although the father had confiscated his home, the people in the south still did not give up. They only used etiquette and Taoism to support He Qingzhou."
"oh?"
Chapter completed!